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I am working on a project of scanning all the ITW catalogs, with the assistance of Into the Wind, I have every catalog starting 1981 except 4, I still need the following years 1993, 1994, 2005, and 2008.

If anybody has any of these I would like to borrow them for a couple of days to scan them, then return

Hey there...I was smart enough to hang onto some of my old ones, but it looks like I only have 1990-1991. I should have 2008, I'll have to look through my archive. I would be interested to see the rest of them again, are you planning on posting them when you're done with the project ?~Rob.

I am working with John to archive information on older kites, I contacted ITW to assist me in getting information. The scanning project is something I was going to do for myself, though ITW knows I am scanning them.(they sent me their only copies of 81, 82, 83 to scan and return)

As you know Kitelife has the archives of the past Kitelines and SKQ magazines so it seems a good fit.

I guess it depends on what ITW decides if/how they want them available. I doubt they would object making them available for viewing, but they may frown on people trying to order from them

Iirc as well there was no 2005 printed catalog. I love(d) printed catalogs. I can check tomorrow as I think I had a run from '96/'97?? on and I do remember some correspondence regarding a (non)catalog....What a great idea. I`m sure I even have some Dan Whitney GWTW catalogs lying around as well...bt

That is still to be determined, I am waiting until I have them mostly done and will show it to ITW, they may want to post in their archive, or give permission to post elsewhere (kitelife archive)

Will this be on the public content side, or the members only side ? It would be nice if everyone could see these pieces of history, and not have to pay for the viewing. If you need a space to house them, I have plenty of space on my web server. ~Rob.

I was a KL member for a few years, but the dual and single line interest group all went elsewhere or got absorbed by the dark side. I had to decide between my AKA membership and my KL membership, so I chose to keep the AKA. I did learn alot from KL, got alot of 'newbie help' from the members at the time.

While it would be neat to see some of those old catalogs, I certainly wouldn't pay Kitelife to see them.

Nothing is for sure at this time, but I would expect that if (that's a big if) it were to be posted on Kitelife, it would most likely be in the Library section which doesn't require a membership to access the past issues of Kitelines and SKQ.

I am a long way (1981,82,83,87,2009 scanned so far) from finished, and I still need approval/permission from ITW after they see the final results. I should be further along I know, started Wednesday, but hurricane Rick has caused havoc here in Tucson. Our normal winds of 2-5 mph have been 12-18 instead, so Ive been spending the most part of the morning/afternoon at the local ball field. Got in about 6-8 hours earlier this week. Took the wife to Bisbee AZ for a day trip of antiquing, dinner, and a jazz trio this afternoon/evening.

My son is currently working on a (flip album type) program that I hope will give me the output I am looking for. He is "The Engineer" (programmer) for Onverse.com, so he is working on my project between patches/updates/enhancements to their program. He did request some sample scans today so he may have the thing running.

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